Healthy Food, Healthy Body

What does it mean when we say a food is healthy? How much difference can the type of milk we drink or don’t drink actually make to heart health? And who are public health nutrition messages for anyway? For example, advice to avoid full fat milk can be inappropriate for people with small appetites. When lactose intolerance is the norm globally, why is milk so esteemed? Lots of factors complicate ‘food swaps’ made for nutritional-ecological-moral reasons. Focusing on milk we’ll engage with biomedical, behavioural, and planetary science – together with the knowledge and experience in the room – to build nutrition messages that move beyond food confusion (and maybe guilt) and that make sure no one is left behind.

Bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) are a neglected tool in our fight against bacterial diseases, which has been experiencing resurgence in the light of rising antibiotic resistance. In this talk I will give a short overview of biology of bacteriophages, their role in fundamental biological research and their contribution to our study of molecular biology, as well as an overview of their comeback as the life-saving weapon in our fight against infections by bacteria resistant to all antibiotics.